Internet speeds in China have historically remained sluggish, though the country has been making steady strides in improving online connectivity. According to a report from China Cache, in which the o...

Beijing may be China’s capital, but as we saw last month, it’s still not winning any races when it comes to internet speed. But the Beijing subsidiary of China Unicom may help to change that today, as...

Ever wonder where the fastest internet in China is? According to a new report released by Qihoo 360, the answer is Shanghai. In fact, the report has ranked all of China’s provinces — including that ro...

As someone who spent some time at a Chinese college myself, I was interested today to run across this weibo post written by Youmi founder Wang Lifen (pictured) about the restrictive internet at many C...

Regular readers will know that China is aiming for 100 Mbps broadband in some regions by 2015. But for now, most Chinese web users spend a lot of time looking at spinning or expanding loading graphics...

After earlier concerns that the free-to-play MMORPG Allods Online might be banned in China, the game will actually launch in the country tomorrow (August 30th) at 2pm local time. The Russian-developed...

Yesterday, Beijing authorities (including the committee that manages telecommunications and the committee that manages housing) held a meeting and said that by the end of this year, Beijing will have ...

China’s powerful State Council released a report yesterday that addresses, among many other things, its plans for the development of the web and mobile sectors in China by 2015. The report indicates t...

The internet isn’t particularly fast anywhere in China, but if you’re looking for a fast connection, all provinces are not created equal. The folks at ChinaCache run a real-time internet speed monitor...

China Unicom has been upping its 3G speed right and left recently, adding HSPA+ support that supposedly raised connection speeds to a possible 21 Mbps, and now the company is rolling out another updat...

We’ve all felt the frustration of a bad internet connection from time to time. But when the internet on one part of campus at a college in Dongguan began to malfunction, dropping the connection every ...

The question has come up recently in expat discussions on Twitter, inspired in part by this excellent post by James Fallows. Obviously, everyone knows how slow China’s internet looks when stacked up a...

Life for an internet addict can be tough if you’re living somewhere where the fastest available internet connection is 4 Mbps. But it’s even more frustrating when you’re paying for a 4 Mbps internet c...

We’ve written quite a bit about the testing of China Mobile’s 4G TD-LTE network that’s currently underway in Guangzhou and other cities throughout China. But how fast is TD-LTE really? Pretty freakin’...

Are you ready to gaze into the future? OK, are you ready to gaze into the future as predicted by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology? If so, look no further than the Ministry’s int...

It’s no secret that China’s internet is pretty slow. Looking at the numbers makes it clear, and the message is struck home every time I leave China. When I went to Hong Kong last year, I was shocked a...

Since late last year, broadband speed in China — especially in major cities — has been a hot topic of conversation, and ISPs have been battling to raise connection speeds for lower prices than their c...